Sung Deokim is a bright and strong-willed girl training to become a gungnyeo, a palace maid serving in the royal court of Joseon. Unlike the other young maids, who enjoy daydreaming about romance and marriage, Deokim’s greatest wish is to live her life however she chooses.
In addition to her palace duties, Deokim transcribes literature to earn extra money and support her siblings. But her aptitude for complex texts soon catches the attention of the royal family, turning her side gig into a dangerous political game. And when the infamous crown prince gets involved, Deokim’s heart might be at greater risk than she’s ever imagined possible.
Volume 1 collects episodes 1–14 of the webcomic The Red Sleeve.
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Kang Mikang
Kang Mikang is a South Korean novelist. She began writing the novel series The Red Sleeve at the age of seventeen; the series was published in five volumes in 2017. The Red Sleeve achieved great success in South Korea and was later adapted into a webcomic and a TV drama.
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CreativeSUMM
CreativeSUMM (Cho Heaseung) is the illustrator of the webcomic The Red Sleeve. After dreaming of becoming a comic artist in her teens, she has been creating a variety of animated works for film and television since 1997, and founded the content creation studio CreativeSUMM in 2016. She directed the VR animation Kitz the Cat’s Supermoon Adventure and has contributed to projects such as Beauty Water; Yobi, the Five-Tailed Fox; Chun Tae-il, and many others. The Red Sleeve is CreativeSUMM’s first webcomic.
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